The project will recognize the historic ties of Brown University’s founders to the slave trade. The memorial will be located near the site of the university’s earliest buildings, some of which were built with the help of slave labor.

In the coming months, Obama campaign staffers are planning to visit the campuses of 28 historically Black colleges and universities in an effort to recruit volunteers and organize efforts to turn out the vote.

A study by Geoffrey T. Wodtke of the University of Michigan finds that well-educated Whites and Blacks support affirmative action in the labor market at the same level as Whites and Blacks with lower levels of education.

Despite a Ph.D. from Harvard and groundbreaking research on sociology and race in the final years of the nineteenth century, W.E.B. Du Bois was not offered a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania.